Device for hitching horses



(No Model.)

B. H. TURNER.

DEVIGB FOR HITGHING HORSES. No. 392,834. Patented Nov. 13, 1888.

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EDMUND H. TURNER, OF FERG-US FALLS, MINNESOTA.

DEVICE FOR HITCHING HORSES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 392,834, dated November 13, 1888.

(No model.)

To 4225 2071,0722, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDMUND H. TURNER, of Fergus Falls, in the county of Otter Tail and State of Minnesota, have invented a new and Improved Device for Hitching Horses, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to devices for'hitching horses, and has for its object to provide a horse-hitching device so constructed that it will be firmly and securely held in place.

The invention consists in a horse-hitching device constructed and arranged as hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar figures of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a plan view of the device secured in position for use. 2 is a vertical section on the line 00 a, Fig. l; and Figs. 3 and 4 are detail views thereof detached.

In the construction of this invention,which is especially adapted to be secured in a crack in planking, such as aboard fence or a board sidewalk, I employa ring-plate, 1, to which a hitching strap may be secured, havingaflange,2, with teeth 3 and spurs 4, the ring-piece 1 being in clined to the flange 2. In securing the ringpiece 1 in position the flange 2 is inserted between two planks, 5 5, with the teeth 3 and spurs 4L pressing against the edges of the planks. The teeth 3 and spurs 4 are of sufficient relative length, as shown, to allow for the angle at which flange 2 is located with reference to the edges of planks 5. With the ring-piece 1 is employed a fastening device consisting of a pair of spikes, 6, having a crosspiece, 7, connecting them together. One of the spikes 6 extends through a slot, 8, inthe ring-plate 1 on one side of the flange 2, and the other extends down on the opposite side result of this construction and arrangement of parts is that any strain or pull by a hitchingstrap fastened to ring-piece 1 will cause the spikes G, with their cross-piece, 7 to more firmly wedge and lock the ring-piece in position, its teeth 3 and spurs 4 being pressed into the planks.

The parts are made of metal and of suitable size to avoid breaking.

Having thus described my invention,what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A horsehitching device consisting of a ring-piece having a slot and a toothed flange adapted to be secured between two planks or wooden supports, in combination with a fastening device consisting of a cross-piece with spikes,one of which passes through the slot in the ring-plate and the other bears against the outside of the toothed flange, substantially as described.

2. A horse-hitching device consisting of a ring-plate with a slot and toothed flange, in combination with a wedging-spikc fastener, substantially as described.

3. A horsehitching device consisting of a ring-plate, 1, having a flange, 2, with teeth 3 and spurs 4,and a slot, 8, in combination with a fastener consisting of spikes 6 and crosspicce 7, substantially as described.

EDMUND H. TURNER.

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B. H. MURDEN, F. J. PFEFFERLE. 

